Agile Eastern Europe Conference

About the Conference

“Agileee” stands for Agile Eastern Europe and is an annual and by fact the largest and most well-known Agile conference in the Eastern European.

The first Agileee was held in September 2009. Its success was then exceeded by next Agileee held in October 2010, in September 2011, in October 2012, in October 2013 and in March 2015. All the conferences were held in Kyiv (a.k.a. Kiev), Ukraine, which is nicely placed and easily reached to be a hub for Eastern European agilists.

Schedule

Strategic advantage lies in being yourself and doing the right things the right way. Those who copy what their competitors are doing, place themselves behind the pack — a sure way of losing. This is why “scaling” agility is misleading at best, and disastrous at worst. When you take an existing model and fit your organization to that, you lose much of what makes you unique and different.

Companies small and large must instead learn to grow their own agility for their own advantage. This sounds simple — and it is, when you know what to look for.

In this keynote, Andrea Tomasini presents guidelines and heuristics for growing an agile organization. You will understand why the first step in any transition must be learning how to change. Small inexpensive experiments and empirical metrics will lead you towards your strategic goal, iteratively and incrementally.

The agile transition never ends — but you know it’s working when transitioning becomes a way of life. This not only lets you adapt to new market conditions: it also allows you to create change in the market, on your own terms.

In this session I’m showing a model that organizations can use to foster the adoption of agile. This model is «locally» based on lean startup, understandig Agile initiatives from different countries as startups, and «globally» it uses the validated learning cycles of every organization to create a validated learning knowledge base with the performed experiments of agile practices in diferent environments. This «validated learning knowledge base» is co-created by the members of the internal international Agile community and shared through A3 report sheets.

Lean Start up principles as foundations for a change strategy, A3 thinking and problem solving as a support for lean continuous improvement, Agile Journey mapping as a strategy designing tool and Validated Learning Knowledge Base as a support for effective sharing, compose a complete and easy to use framework that can help communities, multisite organisations and groups of Agile leaders to boost Agile adoption in their business units.

This model has being experimented in the Dutch multinational organisation ING to lead the global agile transformation

12:05-12:30

Coffee

12:30-13:15

talk

Gil Zilberfeld - Everyday Unit Testing Simple

In the age of scaling, we’re thinking of how to master agile in big teams, with big tools and big processes.

As if we’ve already mastered the small scale.

You know those files with tens of thousands lines of code you were debugging last week? Or the ever growing time to compile and run tests?

How about testing a complex system, expanding faster than your team is able to cover? Or reviewing an endless list of bugs, each matters differently for different stake holders? And then the big question: Should we release or not?

We haven’t even mentioned how all these pesky humans that create a complex network of interactions impact everything. Complexity, and our understanding of it, is at the root of IT problems today.

The impact of complexity on our projects is hard to calculate, but it definitely takes a toll. We see it and we feel it – in stress, confidence level and the bottom line.

Sure, we can and should, inspect and adapt. But let’s make it practical. Let’s talk about how small things we do every day, can remove the vague of uncertainty, and make life easier for ourselves.

Fast-moving markets with multiple competitors and frequent need of new features are naturally fertile ground for agile product development, and there are many examples of successful approaches for transforming such companies.

But what about domains which are heavily regulated (eg. pharmaceuticals, air traffic control) where quality assurance & safety are the top values? The classic agile «sales pitch» of delivering software faster, cheaper and more frequently somehow doesn’t find an echo here. When joining the Swiss Air Traffic Control company skyguide, I had to rethink my approach for positioning Agile in order to convince the management that this would be a good idea.

This presentation will allow the audience a «sneak peek» into a safety-obsessed domain (air traffic control), showing how the agile mindset can improve service & software development and still assure the same quality & safety levels. They will discover some concepts which can be helpful for QA in other domains, as well as aspects of Agile which they hadn’t thought about.

I will also share some Lessons Learned with regards to the role of an Agile Champion in a plan-oriented domain which I have picked up during those three years and of course gladly answer audience questions.

15:00 - 15:30

Coffee

15:30 - 16:15

talk

Andrea Provaglio - Agile Transformation Coach Value

In Agile we like to deliver valuable software to our customers on a regular basis. However, while it’s pretty clear what “software” means, we cannot really say the same about “valuable”. The definition of Value in a project (with an uppercase “V”) is frequently fuzzy and confused.

Even within the same project, asking different stakeholders what Value means to them produces different answers; and the same stakeholder will likely provide different definitions of Value, depending on their perception and role in the project.

Most stakeholders will naturally associate Value to money, sometimes through surprisingly creative correlations; but there are other dimensions, equally valid, such as strategic positioning, company image, innovation and learning, and so forth.

Understanding the multidimensional nature of Value becomes therefore critical to drive the project to success.

However, the traditional approach to defining value stems either from a financial mindset or from and engineering mindset, and both may turn out to be incomplete or inadequate to address the complexity of the Agile projects we face and of the ecosystem in which they exist.

In this talk we’ll address what Value means in Agile for different stakeholders; how to map and categorize the stakeholders; how to describe Value on different dimension and how to track it; how to bring system awareness to your project’s definition of value. We’ll also see what happens when we don’t do that.

16:15 - 16:25

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16:25 - 17:10

talk

Evan Leybourn - Business Transformation Leader If you need to start a project, you’ve already failed

I want to be controversial for a moment and propose an end to IT projects, project management & project managers. I propose that the entire project process is flawed from the start for one simple reason. If you need to run a project, you’ve already failed.

By definition, an IT project is a temporary structure to govern and deliver a complex change (such as a new product or platform) into an organisation. However, to be truly competitive, an organisation needs to be able to deliver a continuous stream of change. Managed properly, this negates the need for a project and the associated cost overheads.

This is fundamentally what #noprojects is. The approach, structure, tactics and techniques available to successfully deliver continuous change. At its core, #noprojects is predicated on the alignment of activities to outcomes, measured by value, constrained by guiding principles and supported by continuous delivery technologies.

This presentation will introduce you to #noprojects. You will learn how to define an outcome and create an Outcome Profile. You will also learn how to manage change within the context of an outcome through the Activity Canvas.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Why #noprojects

How to define outcomes (rather than outputs) and use this as the key organisational driver of work

There is a fundamental bug in the leadership program running in most organizations today. How leaders are selected and the sedentary roles they play are mismatched with the speed and complexity of the market these organizations operate. The Scrum Alliance has been undergoing research in organizations in identifying the leadership mindset, behaviors and focus that drive the organizational agility and value delivery required to succeed in this marketplace. This talk shares the discoveries from that research and uncovers the learning objectives all leaders should seek to study and apply in their organizations.

19:00 - 22:00

Banquet

9:50-10:00

Opening

11:10 - 11:20

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11:20 - 12:05

talk

Anton Zotin - Agile Believer Why do you scale: because you really need or because you don’t know how to organise without scaling?

LeSS, Nexus, SAFe, XYZ — the more years passed since Agile Manifesto was created the more scaled frameworks we get. But is it really the only one way to help dozens of people to self-organise around the single product? What if there are other ways with fewer efforts and more efficiency, meaning, awareness?

I want to tell you the story of our company. One awesome product, millions of users all over the world, several platforms, around 100 brave people and… no backlogs synchronisations, no very special roles, no hierarchical structures, no prescribed aligned processes and no branded scaled frameworks.

How are we able to do this? Please, come and you will find out. A true HERE Maps team story with a lot of real examples.

12:05-12:30

Coffee

12:30-13:15

talk

Maksym Dovgopolyi - Agile practician How to survive in VUCA World

Short inside in VUCA World:

Volatility – Increasing rate of change

Uncertainty – Less clarity about the future

Complexity – Multiplicity of decision factors

Ambiguity – There may be no “right answer”

How to operate there, define and achive goals.

Role of leadership skills

13:15 - 14:15

Lunch

14:15 - 15:00

talk

Albina Popova - Agile Coach Rolling out #noestimates @ XING

Are you still estimating work to be done? Still struggling to figure out is it time or complexity estimation? Which one is better? If complexity, what to do with simple but long lasting tasks? What is a 3? What is an 8? What is complexity anyway?

At XING, in all of the teams I have been working with, we have found an answer on all of the questions above that satisfies us and the stakeholders. We have stopped doing estimation on the small scale.

The talk will explain the whole process from trenches. From getting the buy-in to make the shift till analysing whether the change to #noestimates was successful. The talk with cover the pitfalls we faced, benefits gained after the move to #noestimates. The presentation will also cover different options of doing #noestimates @ XING.

Coaching and facilitation are the key skills for making changes on all levels, from personal behavior habits to the transformation of the whole company. Both of these skills are based on more basic competence, such as:

empathy — “how does it feel to be this person? what are his or her feelings?”

awareness — ‘what is happening now? what roles are coming up? how does the system work?”

mindfulness — “what would be my automatic reaction? Which reaction suits the best of all in this situation?”

If you have to help people to change not only their processes, but also their relationship culture, ethics, everyday behavior patterns and even points of view, you can’t do this without trying it yourself.

Remember the last time when felt sorry about your words or even worse — your deeds, that you’ve produced in the state of emotional turmoil.

Are you familiar with the situations in your work relationship that can be described shortly as ‘nothing can be undone anymore’? Have you ever thought that though you’re working with the colleague at the same office you can see not only the world differently, but literally live in the different worlds?

By exploring yourself, your emotions and reactions, building distance and increasing the mindfulness of your choices you can help others. Modern research in neuropsychology and experiments with the ‘inner lab’ of the coach can come to the aid here.

What will we do in 45 minutes?

We will remember typical work situations when emotions have taken over the common sense

We will take a look at 5 negative feelings ‘inside out’: anger, jealousy, greed, arrogance and indifference (omg!) can be handy if we use their constructive energy correctly

We will master 3 techniques that help to increase time for choosing right reaction

We will learn how to expand our ‘mirror system’ for developing empathy to others and higher awareness of what’s happening around us.

We will think together how to use these skills for transformation company’s culture

Audience: Organizations’ Leaders and Change Agents, Coaches and ScrumMasters and all who wishes to increase understanding of themselves and the others and who want to form a system of habits for more mindful reactions.

16:15 - 16:25

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16:25 - 17:10

talk

Volodymyr Trush - Business and Agile Coach Push or Self-organize

Only in current conference this training will be available for such price. It’s original price 25.000. Є /3 days.

We will talk about how to create Self-organized team from scratch. I will show merged data from lifecycle of more than 29 companies(just imagine 29!). (Patterns, FAQ, Problems, the biggest fears and mistakes)

Self-organizing teams don’t need managers. — I will prove it based on merged data from 62 team workflows. And I will show how to create such team and more over I could give my financial guarantee that it’s not a joke. Last time this approach was introduced in USA and currently we begin to introduce it in the largest IT Company in Luxembourg.

Not running retrospectives is easy — just agree you’re good enough or the sprint was OK.

Running typical sprint retrospectives is not hard either — just collect a bunch of problems and spend some time discussing them, there are always things to complain.

Running high-quality retrospectives that make people take ownership of the situation and then do the agree process experiments in between them — that’s the hardest of all.

The «Retrospective Cheat Sheet» (http://retrospective-cheat-sheet.com/) is not just giving you 16 exercises to choose from. It can become your best friend in preparing your next sprint retrospectives as it helps you combine the exercises in insightful agendas with the total of 250 unique agendas. That’s enough agendas probably for the next few years of a Scrum team’s life span.

This workshop will help you get familiar with 16 most-commonly used retrospective activities; will give you hints on when to choose which and make you train your muscle to keep designing unique agendas for make your teams even greater.

Learning outcomes:

get an experience of a well-designed highly-collaborative sprint retrospective

get familiar with 16 retrospective activities

get insights into retrospective meeting dynamics and necessary design to support it

get trained in creating various retrospective agendas for colocated and distributed meetings

The Wallet Project is 90-minute (plus debrief) fast-paced project though a full design cycle. Students pair up, show and tell each other about their wallets, ideate, and make a new solution that is «useful and meaningful» to their partner.

>> Note: a topic variation for the project is the «Gift-Giving Experience». You can find the materials for that project on the page The Gift-Giving Project. And you can figure out which topic might be better for you on this page: Project Topic: Wallet, Gift-Giving, or other

What is it?

START WITH THIS SEVEN-MINUTE VIDEO THAT EXPLAINS DOING AND FACILITATING DP0:
http://bit.ly/dp0facil

A group activity (from 2 to 100+ participants) in which students rapidly do a «full cycle through the design process.» The project is broken down into specific steps (of a few minutes each), and student have worksheet packets that guide them. In addition one or two facilitators (not participating in the project) prompt each step, and add some verbal color and instruction.

What students learn?

Participants get the feel of a design approach, gain some shared vocabulary, and get a taste of each design «mode» (empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test). [Note: the activity is great, regardless if you choose to teach «process» with these steps.] Specifically, we hope students see the value of engaging with real people to help them ground their design decisions, that low-resolutions prototypes are useful to learn from (take an iterative approach), and to bias toward action (you can make a lot of progress in a little bit of time if you start DOing).

16:15 - 16:25

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16:25 - 17:10

talk

Dmitriy Efimenko - Agile practitioner Produсtonomicon. Antipatterns

Kill your product with minimal efforts! Best practices and solutions are to be applied to your management, sales, team, architecture and code approaches ever.

Stephen Parry - Adaptive Lean Org Designer and Change Architect You get the behaviour you design for: Designing organisations that work for Lean and Agile thinking people.

What do Lean and Agile principles tell us about the way we need to design, build and operate modern businesses? Can we design organisations that are adaptive, innovative and engaging for employees, managers and leaders alike? Can we really change cultures and management thinking in reasonably short time-frames?

The presentation will demonstrate the importance of organisational design in promoting the right behaviours to create adaptive work climates and how to design back in the employees’ willing contribution to establish a real human enterprise that is adaptive, innovative and engaging at both the group and organisational level.

11:00 - 11:15

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Introduction speakers of a day

11:15 - 12:00

talk

Artem Serdyuk - Agile coach What’s the buzz about Holacracy

Say you have an Agile software development company with Scrum on all levels. Your teams deliver value every sprint, you have neither estimates, nor budgets, not even a strategic plan. Your customers excite, your employees are happy, but there’s a big question — where should your company develop further?

Teal organizations, flat structures, Holacracy seem to be «the next big thing» in modern business. Though they are in place for decades, today they organically come in sight of IT companies.

So, what’s so different in Teal organizations? What does really flat organization stand for? What are the pros and cons of holacratic arranging the company? And is it a good way to run my own IT company?

I will try to answer these questions in my presentation.

12:00 - 12:10

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12:10 - 12:55

talk

Zuzana Sochova - Agile Coach and Trainer Organization 3.0

The rules of work are changing. Organization 3.0 reflects Agility, an understanding of tribal leadership models, and a recognition that new rules are needed to navigate new organizations that are changing the world today. Teamwork, collaboration, and positive relationships are what matter. If you cannot adopt the new standards, you will be left behind.

Previous organizational structures and processes also reflected their times. Organization 1.0, showed the mentality of industrialism, with stable hierarchies and rule following the norm. Organization 2.0 rewarded specialization, processes, and structure over teams and groups. The «me first» workplace served the lucky few, but is now being replaced by a new generation, with a more thoughtful organization of our lives and work.

Zuzi Sochova’s Organization 3.0 seminar shows how you and your organization can benefit from the new paradigm. With dynamic examples, and unique perspectives, Zuzi is a regular headline speaker at Agile conferences world-wide.

Learning Objectives:

* Know the different leadership styles, including leader-leader and leader-follower
* Learn to navigate within the stages of the tribal leadership model
* Understand and promote positivity in your company environment
* Identify 4 team toxins, and apply the antidotes
* Operate in the dynamics of Organization 3.0

12:55 - 13:05

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13:05 - 13:35

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Jeff Campbell - Agile Coach Your Organisations Value Flow

Are your Sprint planning meetings excruciatingly long and hot? At the end does everyone agree simply so they can get out of the room? In that case, it is very likely you need to look at your refinement process, in other words, the flow into the Sprint.

Improving and visualising your refinement process and outflows will help help create clarity, improve results, and save your orgainsation a lot of time, money, and frustration.

In this talk we will try to find a starting place for you. We will look at a simple process to get you started, as well as a few tools you might find useful in the beginning, and finally the secret to all good refinement will be revealed!

13:35 - 14:35

Lunch

14:35 - 15:20

talk

Ben Linders - Independent Consultant The road to agility

Adopting agile often doesn’t go as smoothly as expected in an organization. The road to agility can be hard to travel: You can’t plan your journey up front and there will be surprises along the way. Becoming agile is a learning process which requires that you reflect regularly and adopt your way of working, finding better ways to travel.

Ben Linders will explore what teams, agile coaches, Scrum masters, and managers can do to be prepared for a journey to agility, what to pack and how to decide which road to follow along the way. This talk will help you to successfully deploy ideas and practices that you’ve learned at the conference.

15:20 -15:30

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15:30 - 16:15

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Dr Adel Hejaaji - Expert in SMEs Is agile manufacturing the right tool for manufacturing SMEs?

Though never certain, over the last decade the business environment for the manufacturing enterprise has become increasingly turbulent, characterised by relentless change and increasing uncertainty due to factors that include; globalisation, the emergence of competitors in low-cost economies and cost-down pressures, ever-shortening product life cycles, technological and legislative changes and more exacting customers. In response many organisations have turned to Lean Manufacturing and applied the principles and practices to current manufacturing activity as a way of addressing waste within the system, improving product quality and reducing manufacturing costs in order to remain competitive. Though effective in securing existing business, when applied alone this approach has been shown not address the issue of future activity and for many organisations improvement in productivity and quality has simply led to company down-sizing and ultimately in some cases plant closure.

For over a decade, organisational change experts, acutely aware of these powerful trends, have been talking about the need to develop ‘‘agile’’ companies that anticipate and respond to rapidly changing conditions in ways that effectively manage both technical and stakeholder complexity.

This speech aims to defined the benefits of using agile manufacturing tools in manufacturing SMEs

My speech will focus on the following:

— The characteristic of today’s business environment

— Changes and Challenges facing the manufacturing SMEs

— The definition of agile manufacturing

16:15 - 16:25

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16:25 - 17:10

talk

Surprise talk

17:10 - 17:30

Coffee

17:30 - 18:30

keynote

Joshua Kerievsky - Agile thought leader Modern Agile

Compare a laptop made 20 years ago to one made today and you’ll find a world of difference in weight, simplicity and power. Compare traditional agile methods with more modern approaches and you’ll find them to be simpler, safer and more efficient. Yet today, too many shops are practicing agile like it’s 1999!

In this talk, I will explain what modern agile methods are, how modern agility compares with the agile manifesto and how modern agile methods differ from their traditional forms. I will show examples of modern agile methods at companies like Google, Etsy, Intuit, AirBnB and others. Finally, I’ll explain why starting with a modern approach may be less painful than beginning with older methods and how to safely modernize your current agile process.

We’re the first and the only team on the market that is creating software products in remotely distributed teams of freelancers, without using any meetings, chats, phone calls or emails. Our unique lightweight process called XDSD allows us to manage programming activities in micro-tasks of 30 minutes size. This is the next generation of Agile. We’re taking programming to the next level, where there are no overtime, frustration, missed deadlines, broken builds, low quality or unhealthy competition between engineers. There are a number of practical examples which will help to demonstrate XDSD in action.

We all know about agile applied to the level of project management and development. But what about C-executive level? Can a business strategy be agile as well? Actually it can be, and in the world of the top managers the idea of agility came under «Balanced Scorecard» label. In this talk we’ll discuss how a company can become an agile in terms of strategy execution.

12:55 - 13:05

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13:05 - 13:35

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Yuriy Koziy - Agile Geek How to inject «Agile» into a large organization

Imagine working in a large organization (software company, 1000+ employees) which has not (yet) adopted Agile on a company-scale.

As an Agile-believer, would you dare to initiate the Change?

What would you start with?

What are the success criteria?

13:35 - 14:35

Lunch

14:35 - 15:20

talk

Nikita Filippov - Intrapreneur & product innovator From Outsource to Product Source: The way to the own Product Company

We have a lot of businesses working in Ukraine as Outsource company. But all we know that outsource is not options as the long-term
business strategy. From the other perspective, there are a few firms that are trying to move to the product development but it too risky
for two reasons:
— You need to invest your money and losing your margin.
— You have no any experience in product management or startup landing neither fundraising.

We in Octoberry, start to work as Product Sourcing company three years ago. We find this way very useful to gain experience in product
management and fundraising and after we moved to own product development and we want to share our case. In this talk, we will
discuss:
— What is product sourcing?
— Why product source.
— Five steps key steps to run Product Source project
— Moving from product source to Product Company

Let’s face it: most developers adopt TDD because they’ve heard someone claim it works. Not that I’d neglect personal experience, but hey, don’t we have something more objective to get our buy-in? Turns out we have — there are numerous studies on TDD, done in both academic and corporate environments.

Research results help us convince others that TDD is worth investing in — at individual, team and organization level. We can also have more realistic expectations of the improvements to come. Furthermore, knowing what metrics does TDD influence, we can measure effects of TDD adoption.

16:15 - 16:25

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16:25 - 17:10

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Dmytro Gadomsky - IT attorney-at-law How we implemented scrum in the law firm and are still on the float

— Legal matters flow from the inside.

— How I became scrum advocate among advocates.

— «All Ladies Do It» or how we became a part of worldwide agile lawyers community.

This is probably a natural evolution of how software product development companies structure their approach to organizing their work. While the classical project management paradigm dominated the industry in the past decades, it shows signs of decay which are accelerated by ever growing influence of agility community. The #noproject is not a mere giving projects a new name while keeping the concept untouched. It is about getting away from goals fragmentation and focusing the delivery organization around what is exactly a value for their customer. That said, this is a further development of culture shift philosophy that is underlying every true agile implementation program.

Still the concept itself cannot be the goal. The goal is always a positive change and solving a customer’s issue. We suggest that in the course of the case study we learn how the concept emerges through culture changes which are necessary for solving a bigger task.

What we aim to achieve in the workshop:

Learn that the concept is not a purpose. It appears as a consequence of changes applied to achieve some business outcome.

Projects constrain a holistic approach to value management and innovation and thus is reactive to any value centric model (e.g. the product model).

How we are going to achieve that is to go through a real life case divided into three sub-scenarios and try to solve that riddle by applying simple change canvas techniques and quantification using a sort of a Boston model.

We are drawn to people who share the same beliefs and have had similar relevant experiences. These groups give us strength and a sense of belonging. However, this creates a “self-sealing logic” that can lock out learning, because we state our beliefs as proven evidence. Every missed opportunity of collaboration, may it be at enterprise, organisation, or team level, is a symptom of our inability, as a group, to observe and learn from other group experience and set of values. We are here at the most important Agile Conference, seeking to meet people who have similar experiences, and eventually share same conclusions. What if we were about to create another bubble of «Self-Sealing-Logic» ?

The hands-on exercices used in the workshop use «Liminal Thinking», the latest fabulous work of Dave Gray, combined with examples of «Third Culture Kids» profiles. The approach aims to support organisations become continuous learning entities, that reinforce leadership and trigger cultural shift.

Session’s main goals are:

create a space of opportunity to «unlock» our own bubble of beliefs through a set of hands-on exercices,

experience , through the open discussion during the exercices, how learning enhances leadership,

allow the audience to discover Dave Gray’s «liminal thinking». We will learn to unveil the impact of our beliefs and start understanding why we have needed them. What were the relevant needs that lead to our assumptions? On the other hand, during the session, we will pick some other «self-sealing logic» group and try to understand without judgement their own process that led them from their own relevant experiences to different beliefs.

Learning Outcomes:

Awareness of our own beliefs as a members of a group

Experience Concrete tools to acquire this awareness

Have a new approach to create and foster openness of learning organisation

Being an agile coach, a Kanban coach or a ScrumMaster, how clear are you on the following questions:

What are your main current coaching goals for your team(s) you’re working with?

What are the main improvement areas you’re focusing on?

What are you planning to achieve in next few months? In a year? In five years?

How will you know you’re on the right way? What kind of skills and support you and your teams will likely need?

How will you be celebrating your wins?

Once your current dreams are realized, what will be made possible to work on then?

These are important questions to pause on and think of. How sure are you about the answers? How interested are you in allowing yourself to think more about them?

This workshop invites you to enter the world of discovery and search for your bigcoaching vision.We’ll use the Focused Agile Coaching as a framework to guide our thinking.

Focused Agile Coaching is a set of thinking tools and coaching techniques that are to help define coaching visions. It is similar to design thinking and product visioning applied to the field of agile coaching. It is a method to help agile coaches and ScrumMasters elaborate their coaching strategies and lay out necessary coaching tactics.

In the heart of it is the Agile Coaching Canvas. This particular tool helps you think through, co-create and capture your coaching vision as an artefact. It then can be used to articulate your coaching vision and strategy.

During this workshop you’ll be co-creating a coaching vision with a help of mentors. Also you’ll be helping others in defining their visions. This would allow you to see the toolset from different angles and then use it in on your own and with coachees.

And if the answers to the seven above questions were not obvious to you — by the end of this workshop you have a clearer understanding on what to focus in your coaching work and will also have created an artefact capturing your big coaching vision that you can share with your coachees and live by.

In Hugo’s workshop, participants will create a best practice board in teams of 5-6 people. The teams go through each block of ‘The Bridge Canvas’. The goal is to share best practices, ideas and experiences. Per block, each team selects the ‘best best practice’. At the end of the workshop, each team will present the best best practices for each block.

At the start of the workshop, Hugo shares a few best practices (personal ones + from other distributed agile experts). Each person gets a handout with clear instructions. This includes some questions to stimulate thinking within the team + some best practice examples per block.

It can be challenging to estimate a small project with well-documented requirements, experienced team and familiar technologies . But how to increase predictability of the estimates when the requirements dosn’t contain enough details, the team has just been formed and project requires new technologies? It is possible. However, the classical estimation approaches do not work well here, better option is to use agile estimates and rely more on agile metrics in order to provide realistic promises to the business stakeholders.

Through the series of exercises, we will estimate very small project and at the regular pace we will capture metrics and update estimates accordingly.

This workshop will help your team in improving their trust relationships and gaining a deep understanding of trustworthiness.

Learn to use the Team Trust Canvas methodology to strengthen your team performance. During the workshop, participants will learn which factors are essential for trust and how to use this new capacity to create an environment that brings the best of people. The content is very practical. Participants will do hands-on step-by-step exercises with the differents tools and games. You’ll be able to use those right away when you go back to work.

Keynote speakers

Stephen Parry

Joshua Kerievsky

Agile thought leader

Andrea Tomasini

Agile Coach

Pete Behrens

Leadership Agility Coach

Stephen ParryAdaptive Lean Org Designer and Change Architect

Stephen Parry is an international leader and organisational architect designing and creating adaptive organisations. He has a world-class reputation for passionate leadership and organisational transformation by changing the way employees, managers and leaders think about their business and their customers.

He is the author of Sense and Respond: The Journey to Customer Purpose (Palgrave), a highly regarded book written as a follow-up to his award-winning organisational transformations. His change work was recognised when he received Best Customer Service Strategy at the National Business Awards. The judges declared his strategy had created organisational transformations which demonstrated an entire cultural change around the needs of customers and could, as a result, demonstrate significant business growth, innovation and success.

Stephen believes that organisations must be designed around the needs of customers through the application of employee creativity, innovation and willing contribution. This was recognised when his approach received awards from the European Service Industry for the Best People Development Programme and a personal award for Innovation and Creativity.

Check website for more details http://www.lloydparry.com/

Joshua KerievskyAgile thought leader

Joshua is a globally recognized thought leader in modern agile software development. He is an entrepreneur, author, and programmer who is passionate about excellent software and discovering better, faster and safer ways to produce it.

As the founder and visionary leader of Industrial Logic, Joshua is taking agile processes to the next level with modern agility, the leading edge of agile values and practice. Modern agile practitioners focus on making users awesome, building safety into everything (from culture to codebases and workspaces), experimenting and learning rapidly and delivering value continuously.

Joshua is a sought-after international speaker, author of the best-selling, Jolt Cola-award winning book, Refactoring to Patterns, and a guru-level practitioner of Modern Agile methods. His pioneering work have helped popularize Agile Readiness Assessments, Chartering, Storytest-Driven Development and Iterative Usability, many of which are now standard in Agile enterprise development.

He is an active blogger on forward-thinking, modern software topics with an edge. Joshua lives with his daughters in Berkeley, California.

Andrea TomasiniAgile Coach

Andrea is one of the founders of agile42 and he has been working in the software development and product management as well as the process optimization arena for more than 20 years. He is one of the few people in the world owning both a Certified Scrum Coach (CSC) and a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) accreditations.

Andrea trained and coached a diverse range of teams and helped many companies in various industries: finance, telecommunication and automotive in implementing agile approaches such as Scrum. His background includes experience in software and product development, business and functional analysis, lean coaching, leadership, organizational change, system architecture and project management. Andrea is very active in the Agile community and constantly evolving his approach to coaching, while working with clients, and participating at meet-ups with other coaches around the world.

Pete BehrensLeadership Agility Coach

Pete Behrens is a Leadership Agility Coach with Trail Ridge Consulting focusing on leadership and organizational agility. He provides guidance to senior executives on how to transform themselves and their companies to work more effectively with more agility. His leadership has enhanced agility across many organizations including Salesforce.com, GE Healthcare, Google, McKinsey & Company, and more.

Pete is a Certified Leadership Agility 360 coach providing one-on-one assessment, development and guidance for increasing the agility of organizational leaders. Furthermore, Pete is a Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) and a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) working deeply with organizations to improve their organizational agility. He was the founder of the Scrum Alliance CEC Program and co-developed the ICAgile Enterprise Agile Coaching (AEC) learning objectives — the foundations of guiding agile organizations. His focus today includes strategy guidance for the Scrum Alliance as a board member and developing the Agile Leadership Certification Program for the Scrum Alliance.

Speakers

161 speakers from all over the world, а well-known industry professionals from U.S, Canada and Western Europe

Jeff Campbell

Agile Coach

Dmitriy Efimenko

Agile practitioner

Hugo Messer

Expert in managing remote teams

Krzysztof Jelski

Agile Coach

François Bachmann

Lean & Agile Coach

Zuzana Sochova

Agile Coach and Trainer

Andrea Provaglio

Agile Transformation Coach

Evan Leybourn

Business Transformation Leader

Aleksey Savkin

Founder of AKS-Labs

Ángel Díaz-Maroto Álvarez

Certified Enterprise Coach

Oana Juncu

Business DJ

Ben Linders

Independent Consultant

Luis Gonçalves

Agile Coach

Dr Adel Hejaaji

Expert in SMEs

Artem Serdyuk

Agile coach

Gil Zilberfeld

Everyday Unit Testing

Yuriy Koziy

Agile Geek

Anton Zotin

Agile Believer

Oleg Gopaniouk

Design Thinker

Albina Popova

Agile Coach

Alexey Krivitsky

Certified Scrum Trainer

Nikita Filippov

Intrapreneur & product innovator

Dmytro Gadomsky

IT attorney-at-law

Natalia Trenina

Agile Coach

Volodymyr Trush

Business and Agile Coach

Slava Moskalenko

Agile/Lean Coach

Alexey Pikulev

Agile coach

Yuriy Malishenko

Visual Facilitator

Maksym Dovgopolyi

Agile practician

Yegor Bugayenko

CTO and co-founder of Teamed.io

Jeff CampbellAgile Coach

Jeff is an Agile Coach who considers the discovery of Agile and Lean to be one of the most defining moments of his life, and considers helping others to improve their working life not to simply be a job, but a social responsibility. As an Agile Coach, he has worked with driving Agile transformations in organisations both small and large and has published an open source book on the subject: leanpub.com/actionableagiletools/

Jeff is also involved in the Agile community outside of the work place being one of the founding members of Gothenburg Sweden’s largest agile community at 700+ members www.scrumbeers.com, a community run agile discussion group which he has helped to spread to 3 countries. He also organizes the yearly conference www.brewingagile.org.

Dmitriy EfimenkoAgile practitioner

18+ years experience. Product and team management. Software architecture and design. Business and system analysis. Sophisticated products with elusive goals. Agile practitioner 10+ years. Creator of engineering and management frameworks.

Hugo MesserExpert in managing remote teams

Hugo Messer is a successful entrepreneur with tremendous experience running distributed (software development) teams. For ten years he has been running Bridge Global, a fully distributed offshore software company with developers all over the world. Based on these experiences he has developed a method for distributed teams to collaborate better. To teach this method, he organizes regular workshops. He has written 6 books about managing remote teams. Recently he set up Ekipa.co, a global market place for software teams.

Krzysztof JelskiAgile Coach

Krzysztof manages all the training efforts of Pragmatists, offering software teams unique training experience in technical agile practices. He delivered workshops in Test-Driven Development and other skills to more than 250 people over the last 5 years.

He both keeps his technical abilities sharp and leans towards business side of software development to see the bigger picture.

Krzysztof passionately helps teams improve the way they collaborate and deliver. The vision he strives for is that of developers regarding themselves as professionals, writing clean code, communicating well with business and feeling confident at work.

François BachmannLean & Agile Coach

Francois Bachmann is a Lean & Agile Trainer and Coach with more than 20 years of experience in software development, both in traditional and agile contexts.

Training and coaching teams from various business domains (industry, financial services, telecom, software products, sports, administration) since 2003, he has been helping companies in Switzerland and across Europe improve their efficiency with various flavors of Agile Project Management. His customers particularly appreciate the practical, results-oriented approach he shares as coach, trainer and speaker.

Francois has been working as a Software Methodologist for skyguide, the Swiss Air Traffic Control company, since 2012.

Zuzana SochovaAgile Coach and Trainer

Zuzi has over 15 years of commercial experiences in IT, beginning as a software designer/engineer and moving up into project management, program management, and into executive management at a company provides SW services for international customers (USA, Germany, Austria, Great Britain, …) that operating in mission critical and life critical sectors – i.e. air traffic control management systems, extensive healthcare applications, and public safety systems.

She started with Agile and Scrum back in 2005, where she was involved in implementing the Agile methods at Medtronic, USA. From that time, she was responsible for Agile transformation and implementation of Agile and Scrum to many companies and teams.

She works as Agile coach and trainer for both large and small organizations. She is Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) by Scrum Alliance. She is writing a book Great ScrumMaster — #ScrumMasterWay which will be published soon.

I help IT organizations to implement better ways of doing business; and I coach leaders, managers and teams who want to improve technically and relationally.

My main focus is on helping companies to transition to organizational and cultural models that are better suited to the kind of knowledge work that’s so typical of software development — which includes, but it’s not limited to, Agile and Lean.

In over 20 years of professional experience, I had clients in three different continents and I worked with organizations ranging from the United Nations to small and dynamics IT companies.

Currently I work in Europe. I’ve worked also in the USA on a O-1 visa for «extraordinary abilities in Sciences”.

As part of my regular activities, I also enjoy sharing what I know by speaking at major international conferences.

Evan pioneered the field of Agile Business Management; applying the successful concepts and practices from the Lean and Agile movements to corporate management. He keeps busy as an executive consultant, non-executive director, conference speaker, internationally published author and father.

Evan has a passion for building effective and productive organisations, filled with actively engaged and committed people. Only through this, can organisations flourish. His experience while holding senior leadership and board positions in both private industry and government has driven his work in business agility and he regularly speaks on these topics at local and international industry conferences. His book, Directing the Agile Organisation, is a must read for anyone looking to take agile out of IT and into the rest of the organisation.

Evan currently works for IBM in Singapore to help them become a leading agile organisation. As always, all thoughts, ideas and comments are his own and do not represent his clients or employer.

Aleksey SavkinFounder of AKS-Labs

Aleksey Savkinis a founder of AKS-Labs, vendor of BSC Designer software and tools for software engineers. His areas of expertise are remote team management,Balanced Scorecard, KPIs, business performance management, general info-business development and marketing. Aleksey is the author of a number of articles and books on Balanced Scorecard.

Ángel Díaz-Maroto ÁlvarezCertified Enterprise Coach

Angel is a very energetic CEC Agile coach who truly enjoy challenges. Putting in place Lean and Agile concepts and practices in very complex environments is my specialty and passion. Currently he’s part of Agilar, one of the leading Agile coaching firms in Europe and Latin America. As a trainer, coach, and mentor, he supported several multinational organizations in their Agile journeys.

During his 15+ years of experience in IT Angel has worked in various roles: Agile coach, R&D manager, software developer, software architect, ScrumMaster, and trainer.

Angel is a CEC (Certified Enterprise Coach by the Scrum Alliance), a Management 3.0 licensed trainer, a professor at ESNE (Escuela Universitaria de Diseño, Innovación y Tecnología) in Madrid and a frequent speaker at international conferences and Agile events in Europe and America.

Oana JuncuBusiness DJ

15 years of experience in Software Development and System Management has driven Oana to embrace Agile and Lean mindset as best approaches for 21st century leading organizations. She embraced the entrepreneurship path by founding cOemerge back in 2013 , a company that helps its large or smaller clients grow Agility and entrepreneurial
mindset through Lean Startup.
To reinforce the effectiveness of Lean Startup, she developed an original approach to defining products in a Lean Startup way, called «Test Driven Business” and an original approach on organisational development that combines storytelling, envisioning and …neurosciences.
Oana acts as an Agile Transformation facilitator, using Creative Solution Definition. She trains and coach Agile teams (from core Business to Software Development and Support Services), so they are able to adopt the set of practices Agile driven improvement techniques, proven to be adapted to each context and goal. Her key focus is building cross-organizations Vision Ownership to align missions with User Value creation.
In her former experience as CIO of Eurosport, the specific context of media combined to the world of sports, Oana had her first reflections about the benefits of XP, SCRUM and LEAN. These are helpful answers in a landscape that requires a highly adaptive Software Development approach, combined with full commitment in an event-driven constraint
context.

Oana loges participate actively in Agile International Community. She strongly believes that connected knowledge is a value generator. She is a frequent speaker in different Agile French and International conferences. She helps reinforce collaboration in the Agile and Lean community by being one of the ALE2011 through 2015 Member of the Organision Team, a member of the Agile Tour Board since 2009, Scrum Gathering in Paris in September 2013, Lean Startup Experience group and many others.
She’s also an Innovation@Games Trained Facilitator since 2009 and a LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitator.

My name is Luis Gonçalves and I am a co-founder at Oikosofy, Agile Coach at HolidayCheck, author, speaker and blogger.

I have been working in the software industry since 2003, as an agile practitioner since 2007. I have a lot of experience in integrating sequential projects phases like localization into an Agile Framework and pioneering Agile adoption at different companies and different.

I am a co-founder of a MeetUp group in Munich, Germany called I like to write and share ideas with the world and this has made me a passionate blogger. I get my inspiration from my professional life and from all the books that I read every week.

Dr Adel Hejaaji is one of the expertises in SMEs management and consultancy. His disciplinary research interests and areas of expertise are in operations management, project management best practices, industry benchmarking, lean manufacturing, supply chain, process analysis and improvement in manufacturing, as well as design and modelling of agility models in manufacturing, particularly in SMEs. He has published a number of papers and books in different languages. He has also worked with universities and different SMEs organisations. Dr Hejaaji is one the Keynote speaker, member of program committees and co-chair in many conferences 2015. Dr Hejaaji also a member of different professional bodies inside and outside UK.

Artem SerdyukAgile coach

As a Project manager, ScrumMaster and Agile coach I have been working in software development since 2006.

As a lecturer I work in universities and business schools since 2001.I also speak at the conferences,

As a consultant I have helped several IT companies to implement Agile way in their work.

Today I’m helping several public agencies to move make their processes more Agile. I’m also convincing other industries besides IT to try Agile in their work at Kyiv-Mohyla business school.

Gil ZilberfeldEveryday Unit Testing

Gil Zilberfeld has been in software since childhood, writing BASIC programs on his trusty Sinclair ZX81. With more than twenty years of developing commercial software, he has vast experience in software methodology and practices.

Gil is an agile consultant, applying agile principles over the last decade. From automated testing to exploratory testing, design practices to team collaboration, scrum to kanban, and lean startup methods – he’s done it all. He is still learning from his successes and failures.

In my spare time I read books, speak at the conferences, play guitar, die at gym, conduct Agile games and workshops, and post to blog http://innovation-inc.tumblr.com/

Anton ZotinAgile Believer

Throughout my career I’ve been in different roles, projects, companies. I remember how a project, customer or even a whole company looks like from ordinary team member’s, linear manager’s or senior manager’s points of view. I know what does it mean small or big, outsourcing or product company and how this context can affect the production process. I’ve seen long never ending maintenance projects, real products or even startups. I understand pros and cons of traditional and agile methodologies because I’ve worked using both.

Now I’m concentrating on Agile. I’ve been using it since 2004 so I have a deep understanding of core principles and know not only the book theory.

I really enjoy helping teams become not only effective but efficient; bring transparency between development teams and customers; explain how to become hyper-productive and self-improvement.

Oleg Gopaniouk Design Thinker

Software Development Management

People Management

Project Management

Lean, Scrum, Kanban

Design Thinking

Albina PopovaAgile Coach

Albina has vast experience in IT industry. She has been working for companies developing embedded systems, SAAS products, big data projects, building a large social network. She has played a role of project manager, scrum master, product owner and a software developer. Regardless of the role, she has been always experimenting with various management approaches and helping companies become more agile and improve the company culture overall.

At the moment Albina is working as an agile coach for XING, the biggest professional network in german-speaking market.

By attending the trainings of Alexey you’ll be exposed to the wide experience, lots of stories and the latest training techniques, including the one of the most popular simulations with Scrum:www.lego4scrum.com invented by Alexey and translated now to more than 15 languages.

Alexey Krivitsky is a Lean-Agile practitioner with deep hands-on experience. The first Scrum project run in 2003. Since then Alexey has been coaching teams and helping organizations become more agile. Alexey has engineering background, worked as a ScrumMaster and an Agile coach. Alexey is one of the few Certified Scrum Trainers.

Alexey kicked off the AgileUkraine community in 2007, co-produced dozens of Agile events, including the sounding Agile Eastern Europe Conferences 2009-2015. He is a recognized public speaker and an often guest at Agile conferences.

Nikita FilippovIntrapreneur & product innovator

Nikita, one of the founders of ScrumTrek.ru and CEO at Octoberry.net.

Nikita worked for eight years as Agile Consultant and provide adoption to such companies as Skype, Alfa-bank, Yandex, Kaspersky Lab, etc.
Last three years Nikita focusing on product development and product management consultancy.

How and where to set-up and operate technology business. Negotiate shareholders’ agreement, issue stock options. Conduct corporate restructuring. Legal support of M&A deals.

Life before Axon:

Deloitte, Arzinger, Juscutum, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA)

Something you should know:

Lecturer in NaUKMA, Head of legal сommitee of Lviv IT Cluster, co-head of IT committee of Ukrainian Bar Association Film fan and jazz listener, eats after 6 p.m., plays football

Natalia TreninaAgile Coach

Nataliya Trenina — Agile coach, managing partner at SCRUMguides company, focused on leading organizational changes towards efficient processes and powerful teams. She is a main trainer of this course, being certified by Scrum Alliance.

EXPERIENCE:Having more than 15 years of experience in the technology field, she made a long way from a Developer to Head of Department. Nataliya was injected with Agile mindset in 2008, from then her work context changed substantially. From 2009, as a partner and co-owner of SCRUMguides company, she is changing organizational culture, bringing joy and meaning to workplaces of various companies.

PRACTICE: Working for last 5 years together with other “scrum guides” she has taught more than 1000 people and helped to change dozens of companies. You can see the feedback regarding her work in her Linkedin profile. She works both with product and offshore companies, takes part in startup competitions and works with entrepreneurs as a business coach.

MISSION: As an organizational coach, she helps various NGO and Volunteer teams to grow through application of LEAN and AGILE approaches. She helped run one of NGO Vostok-SOS (East-SOS).

Volodymyr TrushBusiness and Agile Coach

Volodymyr’s role as a Business and Agile coach entails improving the performance of teams, departments and companies. His skills and expertise in strategic and organizational analysis, conception and implementation of strategies, establishment of new businesses, management development, just to name a few, has seen him effect tremendous positive changes to the establishments has worked with over the years. Last year alone he contributed immensely to the transformation of big companies including 3 IT companies with over 1500 developers and 2 other companies in the services industry employing 2000 staff members (one of which is based in Ukraine).

He works directly with company owners and decision makers to help them reach their goals and gain a better understanding of new trends in business and he also works with recruiters to ensure they are recruiting the best expertise to help reach these goals. A reputable “starter”, he is well known for building teams, departments and companies totally from the scratch, not just in IT industry. He has authored of 3 books, one of them the popular “Do not let people to think”, published in Kyiv, Ukraine in 2012.

With an excellent pedigree in software development and project management sphere for over 15 years, he has extensive experience as a developer (Action Script, PHP and Java), as a project/portfolio manager, as a business analyst, as a Scrum Master(Certified CSM and CSP) and has also founded his own IT Company from scratch, which successfully sold in 2014.

He currently holds a position as an Agile Coach in Docler Holding S.a r.l, the largest IT company in Luxembourg, employing over 1500 employees all around the world with branches in Hungary, Hong Kong and Los Angeles California.

Slava MoskalenkoAgile/Lean Coach

Slava Moskalenko is Agile/Lean Coach, Senior Architect, Software Developer in the Luxoft and Professional Scrum Trainer in Scrum.org. Slava is accountable to guide agile transformations in his current company. He has over 7 years of experience of the practical usage of agile methodologies, such as Scrum, XP, Kanban. As Software Developer Slava has paid much attention to the different engineering disciplines in order to improve team’s internal culture of building technically excellent designs and code. Author of numerous workshops on some popular engineering practices, covering large range of technologies, protocols and architectures. As an Agile Coach Slava has been working with many customers, helping them to adopt gain all the benefits coming from agile/lean methods.

Slava, now is actively involved into development of the new agile services for Luxoft external and internal clients, has successfully completed several large transformations in the big programs.

Alexey PikulevAgile coach

A licensed Management 3.0 trainer, ICAgile authorized trainer and Agile coach with many years of experience of working with a variety of organizations from start-ups to international enterprise corporations. The main focus of my training is Agile Leadership practices and its applications in the organization culture. As a Coach, I am not going to tell your organization what to do but will help you to find the right solution on your own. My current passion is building an engaging creative-work culture in the team, company and community levels by using a variety of creative concepts from coaching to business games .

Yuriy Malishenko is an experienced agilist, trainer and a visual facilitator. He has been exploring practicalities of lean and agile thoughts for the last 6 years and is still learning (and will be). He has helped a number of organizations to run agile transformations both as a change leader and in-the-field coach. Yuriy believes the visual language to be the often forgotten means of communication and utilizes this way of explanation in his day to day work.

Maksym DovgopolyiAgile practician

Project/Portfolio/Process management with 10+ years experience in IT and software development including change of processes and organizational set up for banking, health insurance and corporate management.

Yegor BugayenkoCTO and co-founder of Teamed.io

Yegor is a CTO and co-founder of Teamed.io, a software development company with a unique approach to management of distributed teams; a regular blogger at www.yegor256.com; a proud holder of PMP and OCMEA certifications; a hands-on Java developer and a lead architect of a few popular open source projects, including jcabi.com, takes.org, rultor.com and qulice.com. Yegor lives in Palo Alto, CA and Kyiv, Ukraine.